Jolly!

This is Jolly, our new sister! Shes our foreign exchange student from Berlin, Germany. She will be here for the whole school year and we are all soooo excited! So is she. She is pretty much awesome. Jolly is way outgoing and tries everything.

So far she doesn't like licorice or root beer. But that's ok because I hate licorice and I used to hate root beer, so we are weird together. She isn't any religion, so when we went to Church she thought it was really weird. When they passed the sacrament, she turned to me and said, "They are giving us food?" She has also been trying really hard to say oh my gosh instead of the other word, because she knows that we don't say that. She's really sweet like that. She said she felt a little awkward in church, but she didn't complain about it at all, and eventually I think she will like it. I'm so excited to have this missionary opportunity!

Haha she came to my volleyball game and they kept the gym at -10 degrees, I swear, and she came and asked me if I had a jacket in German. I looked at her funny and then she realized she had just spoken in German!

She also thinks that my dad is really funny- which is true. And when he talks about good food, his eyebrows go up and down (which I have never noticed before, but Jolly thinks thats hilarious).



Last Sunday was our cooking day. My mom made rotkohl (which she has only had a few times in her life, believe it or not) and bratwurst for dinner. Jolly and I made banana bread with some really rotten bananas, and she was kind of grossed out, and the sad thing is that the bread didn't even turn out that good. We used a new recipe and it wasn't fabulous. We also made brownies. Lots and lots of brownies.

Family Home Evening on Sunday night. She fits in perfect! And of course the boys aren't paying attention and Morgen is bored and cold.

Young Womens- we had an ice cream social in our backyard. Jolly probably thinks that we are the unhealthiest people in the world because at the moment we have 5 1/2 gallons of ice cream in our freezer. We keep telling her that we never have ice cream and she should enjoy it while we do, and then a celebration will come (like the Fantasy Football draft party) and we go buy more ice cream!

Fantasy Football Draft party- Jolly thinks this is the weirdest thing she has ever seen since coming to America. A bunch of 40 year old men in the same room, each with their own laptop. I couldn't agree more, now that I think about it, but before I wouldn't have even thought it was weird, because thats just what these guys do every year!

For Young Womens this week, we had a Modesty Fashion Show, and it was soooo much fun. Jolly even participated! She borrowed one of my dresses and rocked the runway. She is so much fun to have around and I'm so grateful for this awesome missionary opportunity.